In this episode, Julie talks with Corey Brettschneider, author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents about the federal indictment of Donald Trump and what it will mean for Trump’s ambitions to retake the Presidency.
Corey Brettschneider is a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, where he has taught constitutional law courses for several years. He is also a Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of several books on constitutional law and political theory, and editor of the Penguin Liberty series--a collection of historical, political and legal classics that speak to modern issues of liberty and constitutional rights. Brettschneider is also a frequent commentator in the media since the Trump presidency on the presidency and the Constitution, including the law and politics of prosecuting and suing a president.
Read the book The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents.
Read his 2018 Washington Post piece in on the law of indicting presidents.
Read his 2019 New York Times piece on the law of presidential immunity.